GlossopLatic

I've defended Nuttall on here in the past and really wanted him to do well. I've seen some of the arguments on here about his languid style and possibly not playing to his strengths and they are legitimate. I do believe he falls into the category of "their is a player in there somewhere" But whichever way you look at it we've not got bang for our buck. For what we paid we should be expecting more from him and we have given him a chance he was a regular starter when he came here and was first choice for most of last season I was hoping pre-season would really get him into shspe but its not really happened for him this season either despite being a starter at the start of the season. Mellon gave him a chance in his first home game and he didn't take it. I don't dislike any of our players even those that don't do well (we'll maybe I have in the past but not now) I don't Boo ex players when they return its just wasted energy. I certainly hold no ill feelings towards him who knows he might come back better, or he might thrive at Cheltenham it wouldn't be beyond him to do that EFL clubs were looking at him when he signed for us. But I get the feeling he will fall into the category of could of done better with his time at Oldham he's not the first he won't be the last.

Tshimanga has signed for Boreham Wood interesting....

Home advantage counts. The vast majority of teams win more at home than they do away. Think we all agree our achiles heel is playing against lesser sides at home when the emphasis is on us to attack and break teams down. I think we need to start faster in these games get into the opposition quickly press hard from the front and take the ball at every given opportunity, if you don't you give teams a foothold in the game and they build from there.

If you are looking for a financial return they are terrible investments you are right. But most don't do it for thst it's often for a love of the sport and abit of fame too it can stroke people egos. I think with the Rothwells it is more a case of civic duty that they are doing this. They probably see it as an investment in the town itself. I think we all realise that their pockets are only so deep and with the parachute payments ending this summer and with the majority of the squad contracted beyond the summer then you do wonder how much wiggle room or resource will be available this summer. I think they are in this for the long haul though. I do hope though that they aren't gambling on getting promoted and then thinking the club will be profitable because while our revenue will clearly jump so too will the asking price of players that we will need to compete at that level. That said its not something I will be losing sleep over just yet.

True but I feel if anything maybe we need a more creative type of player but we will see.

Add in Raglan who's the 31 and Fondop who is 30. Not quite sure what to think of this signing not too sure it's exactly what we need but at the same time I feel abit churlish complaining about bringing in a player with such experience which could be very useful at the business end of the season when we need calm heads and ofcourse I trust the manager. Let's see how it works out.

I guess Mellon didn't rate the forwards currently on our books due to the fact he signed 2 stikers. Surely Willoughby and Reid will be moving on. Moving Nuttall on might be more tricky one feels. If you have ever played football manager you will know that loaning a player will come with the caveat of paying a certain percentage of the players wages so let's say Willoughby goes to Fylde on loan for the rest of the season they might only be able to pay 20% of his wages and we pay the rest which we might agree too aslong as he doesn't play against us. We make a small saving and make sure he can't do any damage to us either.

Queensy Menig 4 games 1 goal and over £500k outlay in wages that is the worst signing in the clubs history in terms of value for money.

Rattles

Speaking of things you don't see or hear at football matches anymore Rattles Remember them? They were still a thing from my first memories of going to football matches in the early 90s I remember but died off as the decade wore on.

He'd give Dan Gardner a 10 year contract.

By all means do I'm not stopping you. I actually wasn't having a go we've lost 1 - 0 at home in a very winnable game the criticism is very justifiable.

I think a few will need this message board tonight to have a vent and get it out of there system it probably best to let them do it.

I'll put that down to the understandable frustration of getting beat 0-1 at home to Woking. On a more serious note I think this highlights where we are at the moment a team that will win more than it loses and should get 75-80 points but is unfortunately capable of throwing in the odd typical Latics moment like today. We will get in the play offs it could go either way we could very well still get promotion the teams around us are equally fallable as today's results show. But if we don't go up this season then it won't be much of a jump to improve it for the season after and make the extra steps to promotion. Today was frustrating but the roof hasn't fallen in on our promotion hopes yet.

I did warn everybody And as predicted someone stepped up to the plate In other news Bromley and Barnet both losing.....

Splitting hairs abit here from me but 3-5-2 isn't necessarily a defensive formation as such it's just that we've often played a midfield that is more defensive minded with 3 defenders 2 wing backs in Sutton and Kitching and Mcgahey in the centre it has at times asked abit too much of Lundstrum to do the creating who I think is more a box to box midfielder than a creative one. Now we have Conlon in there I'm a little more confident on our ability to make chances If Hogan is suspended we could well go to 4 at the back and potentially bring on either Dallas or Walker or maybe bring both in and move Fondop to the bench and go 4-3-3. The important thing is we have options

On a more serious note I'm expecting them to come here dig in get men behind the ball and make it ugly we've struggled a couple of times with that this season it will be a test. We've beaten Barnet twice by Barnet playing a high line and Norwood and Fondop getting in behind them and terrorising them we might not probably won't get that space in behind them tomorrow it might require abit more guile and quite abit more patience to break them down.

1-0 defeat and some hystetical douche coming on here saying they hope they never see any of the current squad play for us ever again

Yeah you expected to see him pull one out of his socks half way through the game and during a drinks breaks he'd light a fag while leaning agsinst the goal post.

Such a shame we didn't have Gary Harkins for longer than we did he was a proper cult hero looked like the type of bloke you literally dragged out the pub at 5 to 3 but he could properly play.

Anyone remember the last time we beat Barnet on a Tuesday night and followed it up with what looked like on paper an easy home win? Woking might not let us play like Barnet did and we might not get 2 penalties. Just saying

We as fans probably won't and nor should we, but those in the clubs hierarchy who are involved directly in football will I would think have ways of finding out through various ways. It could well be a solvable issue but either way I'd like to think we do our research on players characters aswell as their ability.

I agree but I think its only fair to ask what's gone wrong for him at Barnet to be in and out of the side and last night for him to be going through the motions when he should be one of their shining lights.

In the 2 games against Barnet Norwood has been involved inn all 6 of our goals they will dread facing him again in the play offs. Conlon was superb just so pleased to see someone consistently shor for a pass and know what to do when they get the ball. We have been crying out for a player like that since we dropped into the national League. Lundstrum seems to be getting abit of praise but maybe it's just me at times itvlooked like he was slightly lethargic and not fully fit. Maybe I'm being influenced by the grumpy bloke sat behind me who wanted someone to have a go at now Nuttall is no longer in the team and has found his new target. But anyway I'm not worried about him too much certainly not when we have another player in Hammond( who looks like someone who will be prepared to run alot just from seeing his 5 minute cameo) who can come in behind him if required. Front 2 were superb Sai the right back made a solid debut too will reserve judgement on him a little but he certainly didn't do anything wrong. But overall a really good team performance. When you consider the most exciting of the January signings is still to come in its a really exciting time. Nobody at the moment will fancy playing us we are set up nicely for a strong finale to the season. May the 4th be with us!

Fondops celebration when he won the penalty was Bat shit mental NEVER change Big Mike.